[boost] Re: intrusive_ptr: proposal for common base class

From: Stefan Slapeta (stefan_nospam__at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-26 02:36:10

Daniel Wallin wrote:

> I don't necessarily think this is a good idea,

Anyway, it's an idea :) It's just that it maybe could simplify 99% of 
the intrusive_ptr applications.

I also played around with making the concept extendable (optionally 
forwarding the call again to 'external' intrusive_ptr_add_ref etc. after 
handling the reference count) but I couldn't imagine any situation where 
this would be useful.

 > You can use CRTP here instead, to avoid the virtual
> destructor. 

Thanks!

Stefan